SEC. 4. Sections 401(d)(l) through 401(d)(3) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1371 (d)(1) through (d)(3)) are amended to read as follows: "ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE

"(d)(1) The Board shall issue a certificate authorizing the whole or any part of the transportation covered by the application, if it finds that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to perform such transportation properly and to conform to the provisions of this Act and the rules, regulations, and requirements of the Board hereunder, and that such transportation is consistent with the public convenience and necessity; otherwise such application shall be denied. "(2) In the case of an application for a certificate to engage in temporary air transportation, the Board may issue a certificate authorizing the whole or any part thereof for such limited periods as is consistent with the public convenience and necessity, if it finds that the applicant is fit, willing, and able properly to perform such transportation and to conform to the provisions of this Act and the rules, regulations, and requirements of the Board hereunder. "(3) In the case of an application for a certificate to engage in charter air transportation, the Board may issue a certificate to any applicant, not holding a certificate under paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection on January 1, 1977, authorizing interstate air transportation of persons, which authorizes the whole or any part thereof for such periods, as is consistent with the public convenience and necessity, if it finds that the applicant is fit, willing, and able properly to perform the transportation covered by the application and to conform to the provisions of this Act and the rules, regulations, and requirements of the Board hereunder.". SEC. 5. The first sentence of section 401(e)(2) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1371(e)(2)) is amended by striking out the words ", insofar as the operation is to take place without the United States,". SEC. 6. Section 401(g) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1371(g)) is amended to read as follows:

Temporary air transportation.

Charter air transportation.

AUTHORITY TO MODIFY, SUSPEND, OR REVOKE

"(g)(1) The Board upon petition or complaint or upon its own initiative, after notice and hearings, or pursuant to the simplified procedures under subsection (p) of this section, may alter, amend, modify, or suspend any such certificate, in whole or in part, if the public convenience and necessity so require, or may revoke any such certificate, in whole or in part, for intentional failure to comply with any provision of this title or any order, rule, or regulation issued hereunder or any term, condition, or limitation of such certificate. No such certificate shall be revoked unless the holder thereof fails to comply, within a reasonable time to be fixed by the Board, with an order of the Board commanding obedience to the provision, or to the order (other than an order issued in accordance with this sentence), rule, regulation, term, condition, or limitation found by the Board to have been violated. No certificate to engage in foreign air transportation may be altered, amended, modified, suspended, or revoked pursuant to the simplified procedures of subsection (p) of this section if the holder of such certificate requests an oral evidentiary hearing